{"id":916294,"date":"2022-01-14T15:30:58","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T15:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/14\/god-preserved-me-to-become-nigerias-president-says-dele-momodu\/"},"modified":"2022-01-14T15:30:58","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T15:30:58","slug":"god-preserved-me-to-become-nigerias-president-says-dele-momodu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/14\/god-preserved-me-to-become-nigerias-president-says-dele-momodu\/","title":{"rendered":"God Preserved Me To Become Nigeria\u2019s President, Says Dele Momodu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_783538\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-783538\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-783538 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bbnaija-your-candidate-gives-only-romance-sex-dele-momodu-under-attack-for-campaigning-for-kiddwaya-600x414.jpg\" alt=\"God Preserved Me To Become Nigeria\u2019s President, Says Dele Momodu\" width=\"600\" height=\"414\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-783538\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Momodu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dele Momodu, a journalist and publisher of Ovation Magazine, claims that God has preserved him for the presidency of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Momodu stated this during a Channels Television interview on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Momodu had previously expressed interest in running for president in 2023 during a meeting with Ayorchia Ayu, the chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), at the party\u2019s headquarters in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if he can survive the influence of Atiku Abubakar and other PDP candidates, Momodu claimed he is Nigeria\u2019s largest brand and that no other candidate has as many cross-party friends as he does.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-rec td-a-rec-id-content_inline  tdi_2_77b td_block_template_1\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"td-all-devices\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GiftCards-300x250-1.jpg\" alt=\"Gift Cards\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The publisher said that he had a large following among young people, whom he described as the largest political party in Nigeria, and that his party requires a youth-friendly candidate to defeat the All Progressives Congress (APC).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read:\u00a02023 Election: All I\u2019m Seeing Are Geriatrics Posing As Presidential Candidates \u2013 DJ Bign<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t like to sound immodest. There is no brand bigger than \u2014 brand Dele Momodu \u2014 in Nigeria. I\u2019m not even talking about the party<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will be one of the few candidates similar to Chief Abiola who will have support across party lines. There is no individual who is relying only on his party who should feel comfortable about winning an election. I\u2019m one of the few.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I joined the PDP, my first assignment is to ask the young people to start registering online \u2014iampdp.com \u2014 go and check how many people have registered<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you cannot drive out the youth, the biggest political party \u2014 the youth \u2014 I called the voters\u2019 party, if a party ignores the voters and you want to defeat an incumbent party like APC, where they have people who don\u2019t care about anything.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou must get, one, a candidate with a very clean record, no controversy. You must get a candidate who is youth-friendly. You must get a candidate who is cosmopolitan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou must get a candidate who is friends with everybody but very firm who can speak truth to power. I have been speaking truth to power despite the fact that most of these guys are my friends. You hardly find such in any political party. Dele Momodu was preserved by God for that role.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Momodu Dele Momodu, a journalist and publisher of Ovation Magazine, claims that God has preserved him for the presidency of Nigeria. Momodu stated this during a Channels Television interview on Thursday. Momodu had previously expressed interest in running for president in 2023 during a meeting with Ayorchia Ayu, the chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-916294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}